Grapes are DANGEROUS for your dog
28 Aug 2007 1 Comment
The other day, before Karen developed her grape-o-phobia, I was eating grapes. I was about to toss one to the BBD, when I decided to research the idea first. Boy am I glad I did, because I found instances of dogs dying after eating just a few grapes. It’s the same thing for raisins too. They don’t understand why this seems to be a recent occurrence, but they’ll poison a dog no matter if the grapes are commercially grown, home grown, organic or not. If your dog eats a grape, or raisin or even a raisin bagel, call your vet right away. If your vet is unfamiliar with this problem, then try to quickly explain the situation to them, and if they still are unwilling to treat your dog, go elsewhere.
What’s tragic is that many dog handlers and trainers use grapes as little motivating rewards. They don’t know that they’re actually hurting the dog and sometimes don’t find out until its too late.
Update on Karen: The weirdest phobia ever?
28 Aug 2007 Leave a Comment
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She’s doing very well, but yesterday, she had a terrible fright. I was sitting at my computer with a bowl of green seedless grapes right next to the keyboard. She jumped onto my lap, then looked at the grapes.
She is terrified of grapes! I don’t know why, they weren’t moving, they weren’t wet, they were just sitting in a smallish bowl. She was so scared that she dug her claws into me. My daughter had to come remove the grapes and then remove Karen. Carefully remove her because her claws were deeply and painfully embedded into my skin. I’ve never seen an animal react like that to an inert object, and I’m mystified by her behavior. One things for certain, I won’t be eating any grapes any time soon.
OH! This reminds me… but I think I’ll talk about dogs in the next post. Gotta give the BBD equal time, after all.
I am about to BUST!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D
28 Aug 2007 Leave a Comment
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Yesterday, we accomplished something pretty significant to us personally. I wish I could put all the details here, but its just a bit too premature. I just want to mark the date, so that later on, when I’m trying to remember the day X happened, I’ll have it right here on my blog.
I’m feeling a bit worn out today, it must be from all the cartwheels I did on my driveway yesterday. Okay, I wasn’t exactly doing cartwheels, just running around going “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” and laughing and yelling a lot. I am one happy and excited camper right now and will be for some time to come.
